CVE-2017-12614 Apache Airflow Reflected Cross-site Scripting vulnerability in 404 Endpoint

What is CVE-2017-12614?

CVE-2017-12614 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Apache Airflow, published on 6 Aug 2018. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

It was noticed an XSS in certain 404 pages that could be exploited to perform an XSS attack. Chrome will detect this as a reflected XSS attempt and prevent the page from loading. Firefox and other browsers don't, and are vulnerable to this attack. Mitigation: The fix for this is to upgrade to Apache Airflow 1.9.0 or above.

Weakness: CWE-79

Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-12614?

3 open source packages ship an affected version, including apache-airflow. It affects 1 product.

Products include Apache Airflow.

How do I fix CVE-2017-12614?

Upgrade apache-airflow to 1.9.0 or later.

Escape output for the context it lands in and set a strict Content Security Policy. Upgrading the affected component is the real fix. More about Cross-site scripting.

Is CVE-2017-12614 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-12614 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Apache Airflow

• CVE-2020-13927 Apache Airflow's Experimental API Authentication Bypass Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-11978 Apache Airflow Command Injection Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2026-33264 Apache Airflow: DAG author RCE on webserver via unrestricted import_string() in BaseSerialization.deserialize() Critical 9.8
• CVE-2023-25754 Apache Airflow: Privilege escalation using airflow logs Critical 9.8
• CVE-2023-22884 Apache Airflow, Apache Airflow MySQL Provider: Arbitrary file read via MySQL provider in Apache Airflow Critical 9.8

All Apache Airflow vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-rv25-9wgj-xg75, PYSEC-2018-45.